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Number of [Democracy|presidential] decrees [VladimirPutin|Putin] issued within two months of taking office last [December|December]

: 491

Age by which [Russia|Russian] president [VladimirPutin|Vladimir Putin] tried to volunteer for the [KGB|KGB]

: 15

Ratio of the number of people worldwide who are [Food|underfed] to those who are overfed

: 1:1

Rank of [Bangladesh|Bangladesh] and [Poland|Poland] among countries accounting for the largest number of [UnitedNations|U.N. peacekeepers] deployed last [Fall|fall]

: 2,1

Percentage by which [India|India] has announced that it will increase its military budget next year

: 28

Years before [Indonesia|Indonesia] hired [HenryKissinger|Henry Kissinger] last [Winter|winter] that he was the U.S. adviser on its [War|invasion] of [EastTimor|East Timor]

: 23.5

Number of acres returned so far

: 0

Number of acres of [Brazil|Brazil] ‘s Panambizinho region that the country’s government [Mendacity|promised] to return to its [NativeAmerican|Indians] in [1990s|1995]

: 3,063

Ratio of the average price of [Oil|oil] in the [Fall|fall] of [1970s|1979] to the price last [February|February]

: 1:1

Portion of [Iran|Iran’s] current population that was under the age of ten at the outset of the [1970s|1979] [Terrorism|hostage] crisis

: 7/10

Number of [Days|days] of [Israel|Israeli] bombing it took last [Winter|winter] to disable a [Lebanon|Lebanon] [Energy|power] grid for a year

: 1

Chance that a [UnitedNations|U.N.] member country other than the U.S. or [Israel|Israel] did not vote for a [1990s|1999] ban on “an arms race in [Space|space] ‚”

: 0

Percentage increase in [NATO|NATO] troops required to seal [Kosovo|Kosovo] ‘s border, according to a [Pentagon|Pentagon] official last [March|March]

: 150

Estimated percentage of people living in [Russia|Russia’s] Ingushetia province last [February|February] who were Chechen war [Refugee|refugees]

: 57

Rank of the 47,000 acres of U.S. land [Business|sold] to [Energy|Occidental Petroleum] in [1990s|1997] among the largest federal land sales ever

: 1

Number of endangered [Animal|tortoises] that U.S. Customs agents discovered in a [Men|man’s] [Fashion|trousers] last [December|December] in [Miami|Miami]

: 55

Price of a saut?ed [Diet|lobster] gilded with 24-carat [Gold|gold] at [Boston|Boston]’s Biba [Food|restaurant] last New Year’s Eve

: $44

Price of a night in Sloan-Kettering [Disease|Cancer Center’s] “special suite‚” equipped with antiques and a living room

: $2,800

Chances that a [Parenting|crib] provided by a U.S. hotel or motel is deemed unsafe by the Consumer Products Safety Commission

: 4 in 5

Estimated number of [AmericanMen|American men] who suffer from compulsive [Sport|bodybuilding]

: 669,000

Points by which the percentage of U.S. [Education|college] [Student|students] who are “frequent [Alcohol|binge drinkers] ‚” has changed since [1990s|1993]

: +3

Points by which the percentage who are abstainers has changed

: +4

Chance that a [College|college student] [Folly|expects to be a millionaire] by the age of 40

: 1 in 2

Percentage of Americans earning $50,000 or less who have watched Who Wants to Be a [Wealth|Millionaire]

: 57

Percentage earning at least [Wealth|$75,000] who have watched it

: 81

Number of [Television|TV] game shows hosted by Mike Wallace before beginning his full-time [Media|journalism] career

: 7

Ratio of the number of hotel rooms planned for [LasVegas|Las Vegas’s] Venetian Hotel to all the hotel rooms in [Venice|Venice]

: 1:1

Price of an [AK-47|AK-47] on [Uganda|Uganda’s] black market, in [Chickens|chickens]

: 1

Chance that a [Policing|police] officer in [SouthAfrica|South Africa] is not licensed to drive

: 1 in 10

Rank of [Transportation|traffic] accidents among the leading causes of [Death|death] for on-duty U.S. [Policing|police] officers last year

: 1

Chance that a U.S. [Policing|police] officer did

: 1 in 4,613

Chance that a U.S. [Fishing|fisherman] died on the [Jobs|job] in [1990s|1998]

: 1 in 718

Percentage change since [1980s|1988] in the amount of [Fish|seafood] [Diet|eaten] worldwide that is cultivated rather than caught

: +146

Percentage of all [Animal|aquatic life] in a [BodyofWater|Danube] tributary [Death|killed] last [Winter|winter] when a mine’s tailings dam overflowed

: 95

Factor by which a shipment of [Ukraine|Ukrainian] [Mushroom|mushrooms] seized by [France|French] customs last year exceeded legal [Radiation|radiation] limits

: 12

Ratio of U.S. [Corn|corn exports] to [Europe|Europe] last year to such exports in [1990s|1996]

: 1:220

Average revenue per acre generated by a [Agriculture|farm] of more than 2,000 acres

: $21.40

Average amount of revenue per acre generated by a U.S. [Agriculture|farm] of fewer than ten acres

: $1,902.50

Percentage change since then in total [Agriculture|farm] income, government payments included

: ???1

Percentage change since [1990s|1997] in direct government payments to U.S. [Agriculture|farmers]

: +200
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